Former public affairs chief Mark Adams gets seven years for rape
It's fair to say that other public affairs firms haven't been quite as visisible.
Drewer (left) is understood to have left the agency without a new role lined up.
Former Number 10 legislative chief Nikki da Costa signs for Cicero
Vince Cable hires Higginson Strategy boss to handle press
Top Number 10 aide to join Peter Mandelson’s secretive agency
As Brexit blows up again, Cicero makes a bid to dominate the airwaves
In the wake of Theresa May’s thumping Brexit defeat, plenty of public affairs consultancies have been offering their high-level hot takes on the crisis in British politics.
But the...
Tory lobbyist and potential MP is labelled ‘Keith Chegwin look-a-like’
Late last year, this column...
Public affairs chiefs at war! Chris Whitehouse turns on Francis Ingham
A month after the PRCA-APPC merger got the green light and everyone looked like they would play nicely, is the stretched twig of peace already at melting point?
On Tuesday evening this...
Craig Dillon: The C4 Brexit drama shows us how social media rules
James Graham’s new Channel 4 movie taps into a rare area in which both sides, Remain and Leave, tend to agree. It is that digital is power - and the pro-Brexit campaign wielded it to...
Daniel Koski: Why Government must embrace the smartphone state
In Paris they are familiar with revolution. So it is apt that world leaders including Canadian Premier Justin Trudeau are gathered in the city today for the first GovTech Summit....
Chris Rogers: How we got Philip Hammond to freeze spirits duty
The politics of this year’s Budget were hardly conducive to even a freeze in excise duty on alcohol, including much-loved UK produced spirits like Scotch Whisky and gin. The Chancellor had to meet...
The 2018 Stakeholder Awards: Full list of winners
The annual Stakeholder Awards celebrate the highlights - and lowlights - of public affairs. As usual, the awards have been judged by a one-strong panel comprised of the UK's leading public...
Lunch with... Jon McLeod
My opening question to Jon McLeod is my usual sarcastic one: what shall we talk about? To which most people respond with a weary resignation ‘Brexit'. But not Jon, who says football.
"Well...
A marriage made in Brexit - but what's next for Hanbury Strategy?
At 7am on the morning after the EU referendum, David Cameron’s strategy director was in Number 10 when he received a call on his mobile. “Michael Gove wants to pass a message to the prime minister...